Calcutta , Feb. 8: Delhi-based Cals Refinery is planning to relocate one more refinery to Haldia from abroad.

It is close to signing a deal with Petro Canada to acquire the latters refinery at Oakville, Ontario, which is in Canada.

The plan is to relocate the plant, equipped to process 5 million tonnes of crude oil a year. Cals will spend Rs 4,000 crore on buying and relocating the facility.

This is the second such project of Cals, owned by SpiceJet promoter Sanjay Malhotra.

Last year, the company had signed an agreement to acquire a Bayernoil refinery at Ingolstadt in Germany and bring it to Haldia.

Cals plans to set up two 5mt refineries and has acquired about 450-500 acres for them.

The refinery from Germany is expected to be operational in the first half of 2010. Equipment is scheduled to arrive in Haldia from March this year.

Cals is setting up the infrastructure required for the first phase.

The Oakville plant is slated to be operational by the end of 2010. Petro Canada had stopped production in 2005 after running the plant for 47 years.

By the end of next year, Cals will have 10mt refining capacity in Haldia and emerge as a significant player in the eastern region. This may make the company an anchor investor at Nayachar, in Bengal, which is the site of a proposed chemical hub.